Jay Indovino
Jay Indovino was the founding Executive Director of Pedal the Cause, a peer-to-peer cancer fundraising cycling event which raised critical funds for groundbreaking seed research at the Siteman Cancer Center and St. Louis Children’s Hospital. Founded in 2010, Pedal the Cause became a top-ten nationally ranked standalone fundraising event, donating more than $35 million since inception. In 2019, Pedal the Cause hosted more than 4000 cyclists, supported by 500 volunteers and donated more than $4.7million. In 2013, Indovino was instrumental in launching a similar event in San Diego now called Padres Pedal the Cause and has been an advisor, interim executive director and board member since inception. Prior to Pedal the Cause, Indovino spent more than 20 years in the financial industry, notably as Managing Director of Bridge Trading Company and Group CEO of Sungard Institutional Brokerage Inc. During that time, Indovino managed large teams of employees, developed new lines of business, and served an institutional client base comprised of the largest money managers in the world. After stepping down from Pedal the Cause in 2020, Indovino launched i5 Enterprises in 2021 to help organizations reach their potential. Indovino received his Bachelor of Arts from the University of Rochester. He now resides in Crested Butte, CO with his wife, Jill and his black lab, Earl.
Jill Indovino
In 2002, Jill Indovino launched the St. Louis council of Girls on the Run on a park bench with 4 girls including her daughter Nicole. Over the next decade, Jill grew GOTR St. Louis into the largest council in the country, serving more than 5000 girls annually from 200 elementary and middle schools in the St. Louis region. After utilizing various local 5K’s as the season-ending achievement of the program, GOTR STL launched its own 5K series in 2007 with fall and spring races. Those two 5Ks quickly became the largest races in the St. Louis region averaging more than 10,000 participants. Throughout her tenure, Jill became adept at fundraising, sponsorship development, event management, organization management and board development. Outside of her GOTR career, Jill spent many years in the financial industry, notably as a municipal bond analyst at A.G. Edwards and as Vice-President of Private Banking at J.P. Morgan. Additionally, Jill was very active in the St. Louis non-profit community as President of the Board at Prosper Women’s Entrepreneurs and as a board member of St. Louis Honor Flight. Jill received her Bachelor of Arts in Economics from the University of Rochester.
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